Improvement in plows



A. TAYLOR.

Plow.

No. 3,864. Patented Dec. 19.18441 PATENT OFFICE.

ANTHONY TAYLOR, OF GREENFORD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3,864, dated December19, 1844.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY TAYLOR, of Greenford, in the county ofColumbiana and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Gast-Iron Flows, which is described as follows, reference being hadto the annexed drawings of the same, making' part of this specilication.

Figure l is a side elevation of the plow. Fig. 2 is a perspective viewof the false landbar I and cutter O. Fig. 3 is a section through thebeam, showing the manner of fastening the neck ofthe plow'to the beam.section ot' a plate ot' iron forming the shoe H. Fig. 5 is a perspectiveView ot the socketpoint L.

p Similar letters in the several tlgures ret'er to corresponding parts.

The mold-board A ot' this plow is secured to the right handle in theusual manner, and to the beam B by a neck, G, which extends through amortise formed in the beam, being secured therein by a screw and nut, bywhich the beam is raised and lowered to alter the draft ot' the plow, asmay be required.

The landside D is secured to the share l)2 by a bolt passing through thefront part ot the mold board, and through a bar welded or bolted to thelandside and riveted on the out-l side, or in the most convenientmanner. The other end of the iandside is attached to the left handle inthe usual manner.

Two small rollers, E F, are attached to the landside, one in front andthe other under the lower end of the handle. The one marked E, under theend oi' the handle, is arranged. in a vertical position in a mortisemade in the landside, and turns in ears formed on the inside of thelandside, and extends from the bottom of said landside to the topthereof, projecting about one-halt an inch beyond the outside of thelandside. The object ot' this roller is to prevent friction by keepingthe main body of the landside of the plow from touching the side ofthefurrow. The second roller, F, is arranged in a horizontal positioninside the landside, and turns on the bottom of the furrow to preventthe lower edges ofthe landside and mold-board from touching the earth,except at their points, the space between their points and the rollerbeing entirely free from contact with it. Both rollers may be providedwith Scrapers to prevent the earth adhering to their surfaces.

Although the plow above described is composed ot` cast iron, yet bysubstituting a wrought-iron share with its attachments in place of thecast-iron share it can be made to possess all the advantages of awrought-iron plow, in which case a shoe or covering, H, of boiler-ironis welded to the lower part of the cutter O ofthe wrough t-iron shareD2, tor the purpose of strengthening and rendering the same moredurable, which shoev projects about one-halt aninch on the landside ot'the cutter,

so as to t'orin a shoulder, s, against which the end of a falseland-bar, I, rests, and consists of a plate of boiler-iron of the formrepresented of the landside ot' the plow, and is secured to the plow atits t'ront end by a hook, E, as represented in Fig. 2, and by dottedlines in Fig. l, which passes through a slot formed in the cutter O, andat its opposite end by a bolt and nut. When the above-mentionedwrought-iron shoe or covering H on the lower part ot' the cutter C andfalse. land-bar I become partially worn, they can be replaced at atriiiingexpense. When the point of the wrought-iron share becomes dullor worn from long use a socketpoint or shoe, L, is fitted thereto. It iscomposed of wrought-iron, and corresponds in form with the point oftheplow, and has a socket or mortise made in it of the required form toadmit said plow-point. This socket-point L is driven on the point ot theplow while in a heated state. What I claim as my invention, and which Idesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The use ofthe shoe or socket-point L, made Witnesses EDM. MAHER,GHARLEs F. BEVERLY.`

